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Sociology is the study of... - Correct Answer ✔✔ human society and social interactions
Sociology emerges as a separate field in Europe during the... - Correct Answer ✔✔
19th century
What is the main focus of sociology? - Correct Answer ✔✔ The group
The first sociological study in France about suicide was preformed by who? - Correct
Answer ✔✔ Emile Durkheim
Sociological imagination - Correct Answer ✔✔ The vivid awareness of the relationship
between personal experience and the wider society
Who was sociological imagination developed by? - Correct Answer ✔✔ C Wright Mills
Who gave sociology it's name? - Correct Answer ✔✔ August Compte
Which theorist believed in the struggle between the higher class owners and lower class
workers? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Karl Marx
Which group of theorists believed in a system of highly related parts? - Correct Answer
✔✔ Functionalism
What are functions that were intended to happen? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Manifest
functions
What are functions that were not intended to happen? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Latent
functions
Culture - Correct Answer ✔✔ All that humans learn to do, use, know, and believe
What is happening to the number of traditional families? - Correct Answer ✔✔
Decreasing
Name the six functions of a family: - Correct Answer ✔✔ 1. regulating sexual behavior
2. patterning reproduction
3. organizing production/consumption
4. socializing children
5. providing care and protection
, 6. providing social status
A nuclear family consists of... - Correct Answer ✔✔ Parents and two children
How do Americans trace decent? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Bilateral
Marriage is... - Correct Answer ✔✔ D [all of the above]
Is romantic love necessary for marriage? - Correct Answer ✔✔ No
Marrying someone outside your group... - Correct Answer ✔✔ Exogamy
Marrying someone similar to you in terms of race, social class, etc... - Correct Answer
✔✔ Homogamy
Over the last 40 years, the median age for 1st marriage is... - Correct Answer ✔✔
increasing
State with the most interracial marriage is... - Correct Answer ✔✔ Hawaii
Percentage of babies born to mothers that are unwed is... - Correct Answer ✔✔ 41%
How did the industrial revolution effect the family? - Correct Answer ✔✔ It evolved the
family into a nuclear family: child centered, increased equality and compassion,
decreased extended family
A system of beliefs, values, and practices is... - Correct Answer ✔✔ Religion
Which theoretical perspective views religion as a tool used by the rich to control the
poor? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Conflict theorist
Things that are aw-inspiring, knowledgeable, only through extraordinary experiences... -
Correct Answer ✔✔ Sacred
Who developed the terms "sacred" and "profane"? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Emile
Durkheim
What is the name of Emile Durkheim's book? - Correct Answer ✔✔ "Elementary Form
Of Religious Life"
Beliefs of ghost/ancestors that inhabit animate and inanimate objects is... - Correct
Answer ✔✔ Animism
2 Functions of education: - Correct Answer ✔✔ 1. socialize children
2. transmit culture, knowledge, and skills